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![Finding Love at Mermaid Terrace by Kate Forster]()
Finding Love at Mermaid Terrace by Kate Forster
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLove comes when you least expect it...Tressa Buckland likes her quiet life in Port Lowdy, with its cobbled streets and colourful terraced houses overlooking the sea. Her job at the local paper allows her to pursue her art in her free time, with no one but her tabby cat Ginger Pickles to mind her in Mermaid Terrace...Categorized as:
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![The Cafe at the Loch by Hannah Ellis]()
The Cafe at the Loch by Hannah Ellis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA holiday fling threw her life into chaos …Elspeth Mackenzie hasn’t had any contact with the father of her child since they had a fling three years ago. Getting pregnant at sixteen turned her life upside down. But now she has everything back under control. She’s managing a cafe and a toddler and making it look easy.If only dating was as easy...Categorized as:
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![Promises to Keep by Diana Knightley]()
Promises to Keep by Diana Knightley
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“I hae tae live up tae my promises. Or I ought not tae make them so earnestly.” —Magnus“I would never want the lesson to be to make fewer promises, less earnestly. It’s one of the greatest things about you.” —KaitlynMagnus and Kaitlyn have new commitments, adventures, and dangers. He has challenges that await. She has loved ones to protect...Categorized as:
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![Earth by John Boyne]()
Earth by John Boyne
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man whose direction in life takes a vastly different turn than what he expected.It’s the tabloid sensation of the two well-known footballers standing in the dock, charged with sexual assault, a series of vile text messages pointing towards their guilt... -
![Stolen by Jolie Vines]()
Stolen by Jolie Vines
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe’s a mountain rescue pilot. She’s about to fly into danger.RoryThere are three things I know as fact:- There’s a million dollars in my bank account that isn’t mine.- I planned a vacation fling with a hot Scottish guy…- But then kissed his twin by accident. Bam, cue fireworks.Now, if the universe could do me a solid and help me kiss him on purpose, I might forget my money troubles... -
![Stubborn Spark by Jolie Vines]()
Stubborn Spark by Jolie Vines
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne snow party, two hot kisses. Three people who are more than happy to share.BlayneDone with university, I’m home in the Highlands, and life is anything but chill. My best friend is here and so’s a gorgeous American lass, working at my family’s snowboarding centre. On a wild night, both Brodie and I get to lock lips with Casey. Heat scalds us. Chemistry explodes... -
![Reluctantly Home by Imogen Clark]()
Reluctantly Home by Imogen Clark
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of Where the Story Starts comes a tale about dealing with the past—and finally facing the future.Pip Appleby seems to have it all, with her prestigious job as a human rights lawyer and her enviable London home. But then a tragic accident stops her life in its tracks, and in an instant everything changes...Categorized as:
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![Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers by Alexander McCall Smith]()
Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers by Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt's not that poor Bertie Pollock is wishing his life away, but having anticipated his 7th birthday for so long he's now longing to be 18. But there's a lot of living to do and Bertie isn't alone amongst the residents of Scotland Street in trying to do just that - with mixed fortunes...Categorized as:
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![Tempting the Highlander by Janet Chapman]()
Tempting the Highlander by Janet Chapman
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsShe has the power to tempt him beyond all reason.... Catherine Daniels arrives in Pine Creek, Maine, at just the right time for Robbie MacBain. She is on the run from her ex-husband, and Robbie is a sexy, single foster parent who needs a housekeeper while he travels back in time to medieval Scotland. Unbeknownst to Catherine, Robbie's looking for a book of spells to save the future of his family...Categorized as:
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![Niall by Diane Darcy]()
Niall by Diane Darcy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNiall is #32 in the series. The stories can be read in any order, but please read THE GATHERING first to avoid confusion. Niall walked over to stand in her place as she moved off to the right. He shot, and the ball landed slightly off center, bounced on the rim, and then off again. He looked at her, as if daring her to say something. “G...Categorized as:
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Jack by L.L. Muir
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Highlander undone... Anyone would go mad if they'd been through 269 years of torment like Jack's. But he will never give up trying to fulfill that promise. A woman out for revenge... Callie cannot forgive the man who has stolen her mother away. Once she hunts him down, she'll make him pay...unless Jack can change her mind about Scotsmen...Categorized as:
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![Lighting the Sky by Katharine E. Smith]()
Lighting the Sky by Katharine E. Smith
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAll is set to change for Alice and Sam as they expect their first child together. Just how they are going to fit themselves, their baby and Sam’s daughter Sophie into their little two-bed cottage is a mystery, but Alice is determined not to get stressed out...Categorized as:
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![A Highland Werewolf Wedding by Terry Spear]()
A Highland Werewolf Wedding by Terry Spear
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsElaine Hawthorn is a gray American werewolf, currently out of work, and on a mission to share in a family treasure. When she arrives in Scotland, she nearly has a head-on collision with one hot, kilt-garbed Highlander, and runs him off the road...Categorized as:
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![A Secret Scottish Escape by Julie Shackman]()
A Secret Scottish Escape by Julie Shackman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen Scotland’s sleepiest hamlet becomes the centre of hot gossip, Layla Devlin finds herself caught in a mystery…When Layla’s fiancée has an unexpected heart attack and dies – in another woman’s arms, no less – Layla is determined to pack up and leave Loch Harris, the village she’s always called home... -
![Thirteen Chances by Cindy Miles]()
Thirteen Chances by Cindy Miles
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsChristian is a fierce Welsh Crusader who's vowed to wait for his true love, Emma, forever. Eight hundred years later, he's still walking the earth as a spirit, thanks to a mangled magic spell. Now, three witches are determined to bring Emma's and Christian's souls together for all eternity. But if they fail, Christian and Emma's love will be lost forever..Categorized as:
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![Waking Innis Bree: Highland Legacy Romance by Linda Hughes]()
Waking Innis Bree: Highland Legacy Romance by Linda Hughes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEnthralling History ~ Captivating Mystery ~ Epic RomanceForsaken and forlorn, Innis Bree MacIntyre finds herself alone in Scotland on her honeymoon after being dumped at the altar. So she's flattered when three men vie for her affections - a debonair billionaire, a grumpy sheep farmer, and a swarthy ghost. (Never mind that one of them is dead...Categorized as:
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![Intermezzo by Sally Rooney]()
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable... -
![Rough Around The Edges: A LESBIAN ROMANCE NOVEL by Crystal Chard]()
Rough Around The Edges: A LESBIAN ROMANCE NOVEL by Crystal Chard
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Fresh, fab and funny. The characters leap off the page and swear at you until you love them while the sweet romance quietly captures your heart." CLARE ASHTON.Roxanne Mackenzie is not exactly living her best life. After moving to London to follow her dream of becoming a writer, she thought things would be different – better. Instead, they’re a whole lot worse... -
![Desperately Entwined by Emily Jane Trent]()
Desperately Entwined by Emily Jane Trent
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDesperately Entwined, Book 8, is the dramatic conclusion of Touched By You: Natalie loves Tanner too much, and her heart might burst. If only he felt the same…. Her life has become inexorably entwined with his, and she’s desperate to have a future with him. Can Tanner make the commitment she longs for, or will the romance end? “She loved him so much she thought her heart might burst... -
![The Heart Asks Pleasure First by Karuna Ezara Parikh]()
The Heart Asks Pleasure First by Karuna Ezara Parikh
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn extraordinary tale of love in a world being torn asunder.It is 2001 and Daya and Aaftab have just met in a park in Cardiff. She is studying ballet and he is practising in a law firm. She falls madly in love. He does, but he also cannot, because he is Muslim and there are certain rules...Categorized as:
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![The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue]()
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhere would I start, and how would it even make sense? How could you understand the year in Shandon Street unless you were there, with us, living it?Rachel Murray is twenty-one years old, platonically infatuated with her housemate James, and less-than-platonically infatuated with her enigmatic, married English professor Dr Byrne... -
![Hero of a Highland Wolf by Terry Spear]()
Hero of a Highland Wolf by Terry Spear
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe's ready for change...Colleen Playfair has never been to Scotland, but when she discovers she must spend a year and a day overseas learning to manage her newly inherited estate, she's ready for the challenge. She even has some ideas for improvements-if she can get past the sexy werewolf who seems convinced he's the one in charge.But he's digging in his claws.. -
![A Howl for a Highlander by Terry Spear]()
A Howl for a Highlander by Terry Spear
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBook 2 in Terry Spear's Highland Wolf SeriesA Highland Wolf on a Mission...Meets a Dangerous DistractionDuncan MacNeill is hell-bent on catching the thief who's stolen the clan's fortune and run off to Grand Cayman Island. Duncan has rarely left his homeland and he couldn't care less about an island paradise...Categorized as:
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![Glasgow Boys by Margaret McDonald]()
Glasgow Boys by Margaret McDonald
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA striking debut exploring the power of identity, community and the Scottish working class. This coming-of-age story is an incisive look at young masculinity and the way even the most fraught childhood is not without hope.Neither Finlay or Banjo can remember the last time they had a hug.Against all odds, 18-year-old Finlay has begun his nursing degree at Glasgow University...Categorized as:
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![Heart of the Highland Wolf by Terry Spear]()
Heart of the Highland Wolf by Terry Spear
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBook 1 in Terry Spear's Highland Wolf Series It's a matter of pride... Modern day werewolf laird Ian MacNeill reluctantly allows a film production company to use his castle, but he knows his secretive clan has a big problem when a beautiful red werewolf female who insists she's working on the film keeps showing up in the wrong places...and a matter of pleasure...Categorized as:
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![A Time of Love and Tartan by Alexander McCall Smith]()
A Time of Love and Tartan by Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's perennially popular and irresistibly charming 44 Scotland Street series.When Pat accepts her narcissistic ex-boyfriend Bruce's invitation for coffee, she has no idea of the complications in her romantic and professional life that will follow... -
![Dragon Lost by Donna Grant]()
Dragon Lost by Donna Grant
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsFrom New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Donna Grant comes a new story in her Dark Kings series… Destinies can’t be ignored. No one knows that better than Annita. For as long as she can remember, it's been foretold she would find a dragon. A real-life dragon...Categorized as:
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![Courting Carolina by Janet Chapman]()
Courting Carolina by Janet Chapman
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsWhile building a wilderness trail for a new five-star resort in Spellbound Falls, underachieving playboy Alec MacKeage rescues a beautiful woman who is being chased by kidnappers and agrees to let her hide out with him for a few days... -
![Paper Is White by Hilary Zaid]()
Paper Is White by Hilary Zaid
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen oral historian Ellen Margolis and her girlfriend decide to get married, Ellen realizes that she can't go through with a wedding until she tells her grandmother. There's only one problem: her grandmother is dead...Categorized as:
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![What If I Never Get Over You by Paige Toon]()
What If I Never Get Over You by Paige Toon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne Day meets a contemporary Bridgerton in this high-drama, escapist wonder of a love story, Paige Toon’s best yet.Three days to fall in love. Six years to try to forget.Ellie didn’t expect to fall in love while interrailing through Europe. But she also didn’t expect to meet a man like Ash... -
![Some Like It Scot by Pepper Basham]()
Some Like It Scot by Pepper Basham
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn American travel writer who has never found a place to belong and a reclusive Scot with a surprising secret find a shocking connection when she enters a Highlands manor house that has been turned into a three-week long Edwardian experience.Katie Campbell has traveled her entire life... -
![Dangerous in a Kilt by Anna Durand]()
Dangerous in a Kilt by Anna Durand
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings** SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PRICE ** Feisty American. Hot Scot. Passion Ignites. Good-girl Erica Teague is out on bail, charged with a crime her ex-lover committed. Her desperate bid to experience one wild night of sizzling sex, before her trial and certain conviction, lands her in the arms of Lachlan MacTaggart, a hot Scot with a secret past...Categorized as:
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![Naughty Scot by Frankie Love, C.M. Seabrook]()
Naughty Scot by Frankie Love, C.M. Seabrook
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMy life in the highlands is simple - and that's how I like it. But when a wee bairn is dropped off on my doorstep, things get complicated. My sister's baby needs looking after, but I have my fields and sheep that keep me busy. When an American nanny moves in, it seems my problems are solved. Except Elsie's making my life more tangled than the baby is... -
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![1982, Janine by Alasdair Gray]()
1982, Janine by Alasdair Gray
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1982, Janine is a liberal novel of the most satisfying kind. Set over the course of one night inside the head of Jock McLeish, an aging, divorced, alcoholic, insomniac supervisor of security installations, as he tipples in the bedroom of a small Scottish hotel, it makes an unanswerable case that republicanism is a state of absolute spiritual bankruptcy...Categorized as:
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![The Stopping Place by Lily Morton]()
The Stopping Place by Lily Morton
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSimeon Frith is recovering from a car accident at his house in Cornwall. He’s a successful man and usually very self-sufficient, but after attempting to open a can of baked beans with a brick, he realises that he needs help. However, he never imagined that putting an advert in the paper for an assistant would result in the gorgeous Ziggy Tuesday sauntering into his life... -
![Cimitirul by Adrian Teleşpan, Maria Zurbagiu]()
Cimitirul by Adrian Teleşpan, Maria Zurbagiu
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAdrian Green este un homosexual român care se mută la Londra pentru că.. e obosit. Deși nu prea mai are chef de muncă, își găsește, totuși, un job: administrator de cimitir.Pe măsură ce interacționează cu diverși clienți, vii sau morți, Adrian ne spune exact ce crede el despre religie, bani, sex sau moarte, concepte pe care le descrie cu o sinceritate crudă, foarte mult umor si sarcasm... -
![A Promise of Ankles by Alexander McCall Smith]()
A Promise of Ankles by Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series comes the latest adventures of Bertie and his family and friends. The winds of change are blowing through Scotland Street. Though Bertie is getting older, he can't resist an adventure to escape his domineering mother, and Bruce, ever the navel-gazer, will have to bring his best self to navigate the complexities of the pas de deux... -
![The Bee Sting by Paul Murray]()
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and thought-provoking tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart.The Barnes family is in trouble... -
![Un certain Paul Darrigrand by Philippe Besson]()
Un certain Paul Darrigrand by Philippe Besson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCette année-là, j'avais vingt-deux ans et j'allais, au même moment, rencontrer l'insaisissable Paul Darrigrand et flirter dangereusement avec la mort, sans que ces deux événements aient de rapport entre eux.D'un côté, le plaisir et l'insouciance ; de l'autre, la souffrance et l'inquiétude. Le corps qui exulte et le corps meurtri.Aujourd'hui, je me demande si, au fond, tout n'était pas lié... -
![Steppe by Oksana Vasyakina]()
Steppe by Oksana Vasyakina
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA visceral, stirring novel following a queer literature student traveling across Russia with her estranged father, a long haul truck driver secretly dying of AIDS, from the acclaimed author of WoundA decade after her father walks out on her family, the narrator of Steppe, now a literature student, decides to spend some time with him on the road as he makes deliveries across the vast plains of... -
![Now May You Weep by Deborah Crombie, Michael Deehy]()
Now May You Weep by Deborah Crombie, Michael Deehy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA crime of passion strikes close to home when Gemma and her best friend, Hazel Cavendish, travel to Scotland, a land of mists and fine whiskey, of hidden pasts and dangerous secrets. Or so Gemma discovers when an unexpected meeting with Hazel's old flame yields shocking--and mortal--consequences... -
![The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland]()
The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the author of The Lost for Words Bookshop, The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae will warm you from the inside out. Ailsa Rae is learning how to live. She's only a few months past the heart transplant that—just in time—saved her life. Life should be a joyful adventure. But . . . Her relationship with her mother is at breaking point and she wants to find her father... -
![The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon]()
The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this stylistically adventurous, brilliantly funny tour de force-the most highly acclaimed debut since Nathan Englander's-Aleksander Hemon writes of love and war, Sarajevo and America, with a skill and imagination that are breathtaking.A love affair is experienced in the blink of an eye as the Archduke Ferdinand watches his wife succumb to an assassin's bullet...Categorized as:
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Str8 B8 by K.C. Wells
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWork has been a little hard to come by recently for builder Tom Ryder. When a friend tells him about the wad of cash he got for starring in an adult video, Tom seizes the opportunity. Besides, his friend said his co-star was really hot, so Tom is definitely not seeing a downside.Until he arrives for the shoot and finds out his friend glossed over one important detail—Tom’s co-star is a guy... -
![Coming Home to Winter Island by Jo Thomas]()
Coming Home to Winter Island by Jo Thomas
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWrap up warm and explore the breath-taking beauty of a remote Scottish island and an old house waiting to unlock enchanting family secrets.Do you need to find out where you've come from before you can know what the future holds?Ruby's singing career is on the verge of hitting the big time, when her voice breaks. Fearing her career is over, she signs up for a retreat in Tenerife to recover...Categorized as:
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![Bride of the Mist by Christina Skye]()
Bride of the Mist by Christina Skye
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAT ROSE-COVERED DRAYCOTT ABBEY... in a savage age of chivalry, a war-wear knight defends a mysterious lady from danger and swears himself her champion for all time. Centuries later, a startling psychic vision draws a gifted bridal writer to a rugged castle veiled in Highland mist and to its enigmatic laird, Duncan MacKinnon...Categorized as:
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![The Perfect Gift by Christina Skye]()
The Perfect Gift by Christina Skye
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA woman of rare passionWhen Maggie Kincade arrives at Draycott Abbey, she is stunned to fell that the weathered stone walls offer a safe haven from the dangers of her past. The tranquil English manor soothes her troubled soul - until her peace is shattered by the tall, sexy Scotsman who claims he's been sent to protect her...Categorized as:
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Becoming Ted by Matt Cain
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA charming, joyful and surprising story about love, friendship and learning to be true to yourself, Becoming Ted will steal your heart.Ted Ainsworth has always worked at his family's ice-cream business in the quiet Lancashire town of St Luke's-on-Sea. But the truth is, he's never wanted to work for the family firm - he doesn't even like ice-cream, though he's never told his parents that...Categorized as:
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Best Friend's Daddy by Kelli Callahan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe's totally off limits, but I can't help myself... Declan Mackenzie has always been my secret crush. He's Scottish, hot-as-sin, and covered in gorgeous ink. There's just one complication, and it's a big one. He's my best friend's father. I've always wanted to call him Daddy... When I was stranded and hurt, he was the one who showed up...Categorized as:
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